Tune In | Preservation Hall Jazz Band taps into My Morning Jacket

These are interesting times for the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, which has been keeping New Orleans' traditional brand of jazz alive since 1961. The band's home is a tiny concert hall in the French Quarter, and history comes alive there.

But over the last few years, the band has been embraced by a new generation of pop and rock musicians, the most prominent of whom are Jim James and My Morning Jacket. James and Pres Hall's affable leader, Ben Jaffe, co-produced "That's It!," out today.

"That's It!" is the group's first album of all original material, with songs from a wildly eclectic group that includes Dan Wilson (Semisonic), Kentucky's Chris Stapleton (The SteelDrivers) and Paul Williams, who wrote Kermit's "The Rainbow Connection."

Also out today:

Rock/pop - Robert Pollard, rock's most prolific writer, drops his third release this year with "Honey Locust Honky Tonk"; Glasvegas' "If" is a four-song EP that features the initial single from the Scottish band's next album, "Later ? When the TV Turns to Static," out in September.

Thriftstore Masterpiece is a band with a rotating cast of characters, some of them famous, who occasionally re-create an obscure album in its entirety. Pete Yorn, Frank Black, Isaac Brock and Art Brut's Eddie Argo were involved with "Thriftstore Masterpiece Presents Lee Hazlewood's Trouble Is a Lonesome Town."

Skylar Grey, who has done some writing with Eminem, snared him to produce her new album, "Don't Look Down"; Deep Forest, almost a big deal in the 1990s, is back with more ambient music on "Deep Africa"; Dead Boots, "Verónica."

Country/bluegrass - Travis Tritt's "The Calm After ?" is mainly a reissue of his 2007 independent album, "The Storm," which was highly regarded but suffered from a lawsuit between Tritt and a former label. Tritt has added a couple of songs, including a cover of "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough" recorded with daughter Tyler Reese, 15; Michael Martin Murphey, "Red River Drifter."

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Tune In | Preservation Hall Jazz Band taps into My Morning Jacket

These are interesting times for the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, which has been keeping New Orleans' traditional brand of jazz alive since 1961. The band's home is a tiny concert hall in the French